MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Fake US Debt Ceiling Unceremoniously Raised Again
By DF on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 2:45pm |WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Thursday to allow a further increase in the federal debt limit, permitting President Obama to borrow $1.2 trillion more to operate a government that spent about 55 percent more than it collected in revenue last year.
[Hey, remember when raising the debt ceiling suddenly became, on the margin, the equivalent of Armageddon last year? Yeah, me neither.]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/us/politics/senate-approves-1-2-trillion-debt-limit-rise.html?_r=1
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